Alternating-current dynamo-electric machine.



APPLICATION FILED AU 13, i908.

Patented Oct; 5,190.9.

JVVLNTUR CHAHZE-S' 2-? STEJ METZ ATTX CHARLES P: s'rmnlvinr'z, or SCHENECTADY,

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELEC- TRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ALTEBNATING-CURBENT DYNAMo-nLEcTRI'c MACHINE.

Specification of I To all whtm it may concern: Be it nownthat I, CHARLES P. STEIN METZ, a citizen of the United :States, resid'- ing'at Schenectady, in thecounty of S chen-. ectady, Statemf New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Alternating-Current Dynamo-Electric Mawchine's, of which-the following is a specifica- 'ti-o,n..-.'.,

l6 My invention relates to altei-nating"'c\1nrent dynamo electriomachines and its object,

, 'u'inhture windi'ng whereby atrue sine Wave.

finduced electno n'otive forceis 'attained. 'lheoretica'llyJi'tis possible to --sha'pe' the I field poles an alternator so thatthe' distribution, offma'gneticfluxin the wave ap *issinusoidul anda perfect sine wave of e 'ec-,- tro'motive force is induced. Such-a shape of possible fand inmostinstances is mechanic.- ally n'ot permissible, and alternatorsjas' confstructed, therefore, give -a neletrontotive fforce wave differing more'or less' from 'a sine wave; Forrnany purposes, especiallywhere the circuits contain considerable capacity; as refecta sine Wave as possible is'desir'ablei n a three phase alternatonespecially 'with Y connected armature,. the third harmoi'iie cancels in the electromotive', force between the lines-"'1 The'voltage between lines l and 2 for instance consists of the voltage pftwo,

phases, '1- to-Q- and-O to 2 (Where 0 is the neutral point oh the armature) connected in series so, as" to be 60' degrees displaced in phase; and 60 degrees phase isplacementi, J for the hmdamental is 3X 60, or180 degrees displacement, or opposition, for the"thi rd harmonic, and the latter, therefore, cancels as Q40 i well understo ocl in the. art. E'venthough' t e third harmonicfis thus eliminjated in a three phase amachine by the connections of the phases to each other the wave of inducedele'ctromotive forcefm aybe very different .45 from'a sine. wave becausepf t he'presenee;

highei-ghannonics. Assumingigow, however, 1 I I For instance, 1f the pa1r of col-ls above mentioned, displaced 30m each-other by the pole thatihe armature. coils are not woundffull pitch bht with fractiona pitch, so that the two sides of the coil ares paratedpii oin each- .other on the armature: circumference not by full pitch but by the pole pitch allii:

Insuch a case the voltages induced in t e-- oles, however, is' 'iiot practically two sides of the coil are not in phase with-- n w man. Patented Oct. 5, 190a.

Application filed AugustlB, 1908. Serial No. 448,275.

each other, but 'difier in phase by 5 0m halfway, and the nth harmonic differs in .the two 'sides o f the coil by ajxkof a half .Y

inopposition to each other and therefore 'cancel. [That sfhy giving the armature,

coils a fractional pitch of l -the nth harmonic' in each co'l cancels. I For instance is to PROVI'HQ a noveland simple form-10f 1 by giving the armature coils aet/E) pitch the fifth harmonic may be eliminated-in each coil. Assuming now we have another arma tnre coilof the same-fractional pitch of 3 a t ef eft 9 n a wave, or by 180 degrees, that is, they are *monie but displaced' in position from the I pole-pitch, hut the pole-pitch w (15; the'ri'the, electro notive forces the two a imture coils "m of a half wave .dis-

plac'ed tronrea'ch :other in phase, and; their harmonics are, therefore, in opposition, "sogthat if .the two coils are connected in :series the resultant voltage produced by former on the armature periphery not by a such a pair oficoils is free of the nth and- .also' of, the'mth harmonics.

- In-- a;three phase Y connected alternator having armature coils of 4/5 pitch and half the armature coils of each phase displaced" in opposition to the other half by-1/7 pitch the Voltage. between the terminals is free of the third harmonic (and its overtones, such as the ninth harmonic) andalso of thefiatthv and-of the seventh harmonics, and is thus veryclose to a sine wave the'eleventh harmonic ,being the lowest which can exist.

It will-,be'seen that: the-method. of elimimating-harmonics by displacing eertainof the coilswith respect to others in series with themcanbe, carried fartherso as to elimi 'nate harmonics up to any desired number.

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w oi 'adapted substantially to eliminate another harmonic, certain of the coils of each phase being offset with respect to the other coils of that phase by an amount adapted substantially to eliminate still another harmonic.

3. A three phase alternator of three coils per pole per phase having its phases connected in Y, its armature coils of 7/9ths pitch, and certain of the coils of each phase offset With respect to the others by 1/9th of the pole pitch.

4:- An alternating current dynamo-electric machine having certain of its armature coils I offset with respect to others in series With them by an amount adapted substantially to nate one harmonic of the induced electromotive force and having certain of the coils of each phase oiiset with respect to the other coils of that phase by an amount adapted substantially to eliminate another harmonic. In witness whereof, I havehereunto set my hand this 11th day of August, 1908.

CHARLES P. STEINMETZ.

Witnesses: BENJAMIN B. HULL, THOMAS W. N OONAN. 

